John Koethe was born in San Diego in 1945. He graduated from Princeton in 1967, received a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard in 1973, and then taught in the philosophy department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, retiring as Distinguished Professor…
Thomas Sanderson is Deputy Director and Fellow in the Transnational Threats Project (TNT) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Sanderson focuses on the convergence of terrorism and international crime; terror groups and operations; U.S. counter-terrorism policy and…
Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University, where he specializes in practices that cross medium and disciplinary boundaries between the visual arts, film, and music. He is the author of Beyond the…
Jane Dailey is Associate Professor History and the College. Her first book, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia (North Carolina, 2000), analyzed the conditions that facilitated and, ultimately, undid interracial democracy in the post-Civil War South.…
Sigrid Nunez has published six novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, and Salvation City. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the many journals to…
Peter Filkins is a poet and translator. His most recent collections of poetry are Augustine's Vision, winner of the 2009 New American Press Chapbook Award, and Marking Time, which will appear from Johns Hopkins University Press in fall of 2012.…
Helmut Walser Smith (BA, Cornell, 1984; PhD Yale, 1992) is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of German Nationalism and Religious Conflict (Princeton, 1995), an exploration of the impact of religious division…
Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. He received a BA from Columbia, an MA from King’s College,…
Mason Bates moves fluidly between the worlds of classical concert music and underground electronica. His symphonic work Omnivorous Furniture, for symphonietta & electronica, was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and premiered at Disney Hall. The Biava Quartet gave the…
Gjertrud Schnackenberg was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1953. She is the author of five books of poetry, The Throne of Labdacus (2000), Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992 (2000), A Gilded Lapse of Time (1992), The Lamplit Answer (1985), and Portraits…